Footage of Iran protesters burning Qasem Soleimani statue

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Protest footage shows Iranian demonstrators setting fire to a statue of Qasem Soleimani in Iran, on Jan. 8, according to the date associated with the video. Soleimani, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed in a U.S. airstrike ordered by then-U.S. President Donald Trump in January 2020. The video was published only recently, activists said, due to a complete internet shutdown in Iran at the time of the incident, which delayed the release of footage from protests. Iranian authorities have not commented on the video. The exact location of the incident could not be independently verified.